Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-02-11
G&FERsTATG COnMf.RCE
Important sections OF the New Law
by Congress

State Commerce bill, AS it passed the Sen
ate and the House of Representatives, are
embraced in TIE following sections:
The first section applies the provisions
Ut the act to any common carrier engaged
In the transportation Of passengers wholly
by raj roads or partly by railroads and
partly by water, when both are used un
der common control, m .nagement or ar.
rangcm mt through more than one State
or territory or from any place in the Uni.
ted States to any adjacent foreign Country.
Ii defines the term railroad to include all
BRIDES and ferries used or operated bv
any railroad. All charges made for any
service rendered ia the transp ,rtatiDn of
passengers or property shall be reasonable
anil just and every unjust and unreasona-
Die charg tor such service IS prohibited
and declared to he unlawful.
Section makes it unlawful for any
common carrier, subject t. the provisions
Of this act, to charge, demand collect or
receive, directly or indirectly, from any
l~i''A'7f
saiion for any service rendered in the
transportation of passengers or property
than il charges, demands, collects or re-
ceives from any other person or persons
for doing him or them IA like and contem-
poraneons service in the transport on of a
like kind Of traffic under substantially
similar circumstances and conditions.
Section makes it unlawful for any
common carrier subj CT To The provisions
OF this act, to make OF give any undue cr
unr 9asonable preference or advantage to
any partic lar persons, company, firm,
corporation or Locality or any particular
description of traffic. Every common
carrier, subject to Il provisions of this
act, shall, according to It's respe tive pow
er, afford all reasonable proper and equal
facilities for the interchange of traffic be
tween its respective lines and for receiv-
ing, forwarding and delivering passen-
gers and property to and from the several
lines and those connecting Herewith, and
shall not discriminate in their rates and
charges between such connecting lines.
Sections 4 and 5 Ghe long and short
haul and pooling sections) are as follows
SEC. 4. That it shall be unlawful for
any common carrier, subject to the pro.
visions of this act, to charge or receive any
greater compensation in the aggregate for
the Transportation of passengers, or of like
kind of property, under substantially sim
liar circumstances and conditions, for a
shorter than for a longer distance over the
same line in the same direction, the short
er be ny included within the longer dis
lance; but this shall not be construed as
authorizing any common carrier within
the terms Of this act to charge and receive
as great compensation for shorter as
for longer distance; provided, however
that upon the application to the commits.
sion appointed under the provisions OF
this act, such common carrier may, in
special cases, after an investigation by the
commission, be authorized to charge less
for longer than for shorter distances for
the transportation of passengers and prop,
erty; and the commission NAV, from time
to time, prescribe the extent to which such
designated common carrier may be reliev.
ed from the operation Of this section OF
the act.
SEC. 5. That it shall be unlawful
for any common carrier, subject to
the provisions of this Act, to enter
into any contract, agreement or CON-
bination with any other carrier OF
carriers, for the pooling of freights OF
different and competing railroads, OF
to divide between them the aggregate
or net proceeds of the earnings OF
such railroads, or any portion thereof
and in any case of an agreement for
the pooling of freight, as before said
each day of its continuance shall be
deemed a separate otfense.
Section 6 requires that after 9C
days from the passage of the Act
every common carrier subject to its
provisions shall have printed, and
keep for public inspection, schedules
showing its rates, fares, and charges
and, in addition to requiring railroad,
to give publicity at all of their depot:
on their several lines 1t gives authority
to the commission, where it is proper
and necessary, to require them tc
give publicity to the rates to othe
places beyond the lines of their sew
| aral railrnaHS Ii also nrnuiAnS TIN.